I know; you didn't see that coming, did ya? When Doggy Style hit I was a 23-year-old knucklehead running the streets of New Orleans. I was working through a temp service called Holly Temp that was located on St. Claude Ave. I was able to work from sun up to sun down, drink a 40 oz. of St. Ides malt liquor and then start all over again. Ah..youth is truly wasted on the young. I don't listen to Snoop much anymore these days and when I get nostalgic I'll throw on an edited version of this. Not because I've become all grown up or whatever but just because my head can't process the barrage of profanity in the same way. I suppose that's natural?

Doggy Style was on repeat as I envisioned moving from the south to California. How disappointed I was to see that San Leandro was nothing like the Cali that I'd imagined. "This ain't the LBC!" Hey, I have family in the Bay so that's where I went, ya dig?

Doggy Style is the great production, quintessential G-Funk and powerful storytelling that make for a great album that I could listen to from start to finish and that's why it makes my list.